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- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 784)
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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Part I Background
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Part II Equilibrium
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Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition:
“The aim of this textbook is to show how thermodynamic behavior can emerge for a given finite quantum system. … The book is written in a conceptually simple language, the focus being rather on the careful interpretation of the concepts at hand and their illustrations on model systems. … presents some applications to model systems, which allows one to illustrate more precisely previously introduced notions.” (Gabriel Stoltz, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 f)
“This book introduces into the emergent field of the application of thermodynamics to describe phenomena arising with open quantum systems which consist in one or few particles. … A clue of this book is that ergodicity or mixing are replaced by a kind of typicality which is introduced and used as a basic concept to define equilibrium. … This is a heuristic approach and the results derived show how it works well.” (K.-E. Hellwig, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1221, 2011)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Quantum Thermodynamics
Book Subtitle: Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems
Authors: Jochen Gemmer, M. Michel, Günter Mahler
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70510-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-70509-3Published: 21 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26099-5Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-70510-9Published: 14 July 2009
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 346
Number of Illustrations: 88 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Originally published as volume 657 in the series: Lecture Notes in Physics
Topics: Quantum Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Thermodynamics, Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems